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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologization | Lady Margaret Sackville | LMS
also contributed to a collection issued by the Royal Society of Literature
in 1931: Essays by Divers Hands (edited by Sir Francis Younghusband
). She wrote the forewords to |
| Friends, Associates | Barbara Pym | Pym apparently accused herself of nervousness in meeting Bowen, which had caused her to talk rather too much about herself! EB discusses methods of working . . . She is very kind and obviously feels... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ali Smith | Remarkably too, the print-run made a deliberate switch midway in the order of its two stories—of a fifteenth-century Italian painter and of a modern British teenager—and copies were randomized for distribution, so buyers do not... |
| Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Taylor | ET
wrote that she liked routine and was always disconcerted when I am asked for my life story, for nothing sensational, thank heavens, has ever happened. |
| Literary responses | Lucille Iremonger | In England she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
| Occupation | Nina Bawden | NB
sat on various literary committees: PEN International
, the Society of Authors
, and the Royal Society of Literature
. She was president of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists
, following in... |
| Occupation | George Meredith | GM
received several honours for his literary achievements, including the Order of Merit from Edward VII
and the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Literature
. In 1892 he succeeded Tennyson
as president of... |
| Occupation | John Strange Winter | She was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
, and a member of the Society of Authors
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Occupation | Maggie Gee | MG
has held creative-writing positions at universities including Sussex
, the University of East Anglia
, |
| Author summary | Marie Corelli | MC
was one of the first authors of the modern best seller. She published thirty-one popular novels, including one, published posthumously, which fictionalizes events from her own life. She also wrote short stories (collected... |
| Publishing | Queen Elizabeth I | The manuscript of QEI
's early translation from Marguerite de Navarre
was reproduced in facsimile as The Mirror of the Sinful Soul, edited by Percy W. Ames
for the Royal Society of Literature
. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
| Reception | Barbara Pym | BP
was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
. Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press. 44 |
| Reception | Enid Bagnold | EB
was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
in 1970, and awarded a CBE in 1976, at the same time as Iris Murdoch
. Berney, Kathryn A., editor. Contemporary Women Dramatists. St. James Press. 10 |
| Reception | P. D. James | PDJ
held many influential positions in the arts community. She was a Governor of the BBC
(1988-93), a Member of the BBC General Advisory Council (1987-8), Chairman of the Literature Advisory Council
at the Arts Council of Great Britain |
| Reception | Beryl Bainbridge | BB
was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
. Brown, Susan Windisch, editor. Contemporary Novelists. St James Press. 64 |
Timeline
1826: The Royal Society of Literature received...
Writing climate item
1826
The Royal Society of Literature
received its charter; it had been founded several years previously.
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